Yanomamö language
Yanomamö | |
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Yąnomamɨ | |
Native to | Venezuela, Brazil |
Region | Orinoco–Mavaca; Amazonas |
Ethnicity | Yanomami |
Native speakers | 20,000 (2000–2006)[1] |
Yanomam
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
guu |
Glottolog |
yano1261 [2] |
Yanomamö (Yąnomamɨ) is the most populous of several closely related languages spoken by the Yanomami people. Most speakers are monolingual. For a grammatical description, see Yanomaman languages.
Phonology
Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | plain | p | t | k | |||
aspirated | tʰ | ||||||
Fricative | s | ʃ | h | ||||
Rhotic | ɾ | ||||||
Nasal | m | n | |||||
Approximant | w | j |
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | ɨ | u |
Mid | e | ə | o |
Open | a |
References
- ↑ Yanomamö at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yanomamö". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ "Yanomamö". South American Phonological Inventory Database. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
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